#monkeyfarm

Ren: Home sweet home ahead!

Joe Hills: Until next time y’all, this has been Joe Hills, joined by Monkeyfarm; any last words, Monkeyfarm?

Monkeyfarm: FAIL.

Joe: Joined by Xisuma; any last words, Xisuma?

X: I want my pick back :(

Joe: joined by GenerikB, any last words, Mr. B?

GB: I found this cool new pick! It’s been a great day.

Monkeyfarm, summer of 2011. I don’t even remember how I started watching his Let’s Plays, but he was so chill and funny that I followed him to Hermitcraft (this was before HC had the concept of seasons, apparently). From there I got into your typical “old school” minecraft youtubers, like CaptainSparklez, Skydoesminecraft, and DanTDM (oh and Slamacow. Slamacow!). I stopped watching youtube in like 2013, and stopped playing minecraft in 2016 with the 1.9 combat update.

Fast forward to summer of 2019 and I start seeing @nevergonnagiveuzucc post art on DA that suspiciously looks like minecraft fanart? It never occured to me that it was a thing. Then I hear her talk about Hermitcraft and I’m like, Hermitcraft??? it’s still going??? And then I hear about this “Grian” character from both the internet and my own brother and then I watch Hermitcraft and then I read ATUS and bam! I’m on tumblr making a mineblr.

So there you go, history lesson on Moonrise’s current hyperfixation.

Well, I already watched some YouTube because of Minecraft; I watched Captain Sparklez and a guy by the name of MonkeyFarm a lot, but that was all I really watched regularly.Until FNAF came on the scene. A good friend of mine had heard of this phenomenon of people playing the game on video and getting scared silly, and looked some up. We watched a bit of Felix. Then we found an adorable, loud Irish man. And then a handsome guy with a crazy amazing voice. And we laughed ourselves sick.

Despite the fact that I startle very badly (like, i sometimes get physically ill from it), I was hooked. I ended up looking Mark up later on my own, and eventually added Jack to the mix as well. Felix never really stuck for me (he seems like a great guy but his videos rarely catch my attention), but as time went on Mark and Jack became more and more prominent in my life. The egos more and more caught my attention and fascinated me, the way the guys wove these fictional characters into their own “reality”And then A Date with Markiplier happened. And then Markiplier TV. And I lost just every one of my shits. Over the following summer I (last summer), especially as my health dipped to the worst it’s ever been, I dove headfirst into the fandom everywhere I could. Just like Mark and Jack and their goofy videos have gotten me through some of the worst times in my life, their alter egos and the amazing communities got me through even more.

I’ve made so many friends and really felt renewed, found a crazy strong passion I haven’t felt for much in a long time, and found an inspiration to be to others what Mark and Jack (and Jordan an Amy and Arin and Danny and so many others now) have been for me. I actually really want to start YouTube seriously, as well as streaming on Twitch. I doubt I’ll ever be able to support myself with it but if I can make people happy, I’m happy.

So I guess this very long answer is also sort of my announcement that I’m going to start doing video stuff? I don’t have my own space so I’ll be restricted to what I can get through library quiet rooms and the like, but I’m going to make this happen somehow.